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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1894
Page
5
A compilation of diverse items notes deaths of veterans and pioneers in Las Vegas New Mexico and The Dalles Oregon. It reports crimes from Illinois to Indiana including double killings, poison plots, and a jail term for bigamy in Springfield. Accidents abound from tunnels near Carusle to Joliet fire deaths and shipwrecks near Tacoma.
Crlyaina? Dotogs ue W. D. Ingraham, clerk of court at Ariington Town, shot and killed himself. The Shwayzee horse thieves, Harry Wheams and John Wilson, captured near Kokomo, Indiana. Stark county, Ohio robbed of 17000 by dishonest officials. John F. Branch, a Virginia banker, robbed of valuable jewelry in a Baltimore hotel. Great Martin shot and killed Sheriff Bimma at Beattyville, Kentucky, and was hanged by a mob. Anthony Noecker, foreman of the Kentucky penitentiary at Prunkfort.
A Kansas cyclone struck Gettda Springs sixteen miles west of the Arkansas river, causing extensive damage to farmhouses, outbuildings, and crops. Two injuries reported, with total property loss near $100,000. The storm traveled from the southwest to Winfield, smashing a bath house, a brick block, and several business buildings, while Salt City and surrounding farms suffered partial destruction. Miraculously Mrs. Buckwalter escaped serious harm, and Dr. Duffield was injured but not fatally.
In Tahlegua Indiana prison a desperate fight broke out among five death row inmates including El Levy Chala Starr and Bob Dulton. Levy grabbed a razor attacking Starr and others before Dalton knocked him unconscious and fractured Levy's skull.
Oct 23 Spewich D. A local trend sees feeding wheat rising in popularity. John Grant, living near this place, raised about 700 bushels and plans to ship a car load of hogs from Eastern cities to feed the entire crop.
A Caldwell Ohio report states the residence of Sylvester Yeagle near Car Male in this county was struck by lightning last evening. Mrs Yeagle and two children were killed and their bodies consumed in the fire.
A New Rochelle man, Riley, planned to blast an Italian sewer workers’ shanty after dynamite cartridges and wiring were found at his home. The attack came amid race tension between Italian laborers and Triub workers, with a tense clash ending in Riley’s arrest.
In South Nyack near Nyack New York on October 23 four grandchildren of Rev William Taylor Methodist missionary bishop of Africa perished in a fire at their father Ross Taylors home. A man aged about 80 was badly burned and two others seriously injured. The two oldest children Stewart and William escaped by leaping from a window and were saved. The dead were Harriet 11 Ada 9 Arthur 7 and Schultz 5.
A brief listing of varied incidents: large registration of women in Denver records. a powder demonstration planned in Athens. a fatal blast injures six workers. August H. Everest dies in Atchison after a long career. Boston Central Labor Union condemns militia as harmful to workers. River Du Loup shops and roundhouse destroyed by fire with losses near 200000. the Berlin steamer carries Adee and wife to New York. a Kentucky shooting wounds a Black man and a white man. Belgian election results show Catholic and Liberal divisions. a Salt Lake daily cake rumor and a murder case mark a chaotic news page.
At Third and Wabasha streets the old McClung block collapsed during demolition burying eight of fifteen workers. Injured include William Whelan Frank Mullen Bigena Bradbage Jacob Sehvidt Andrew Witzack Stephen Schelp Andrew Nelson. No inquiry expected. block had been condemned last spring and Pabst Brewing planned a new building.
W. W. Pratt of Columbus arrived with a Logansport to Cincinnati ticket and was placed in the county jail after going insane. This morning he fatally injured himself by repeatedly butting his head against the cell wall, losing a bucket of blood. Pratt left a wife and five children and believed someone was trying to shoot him.
In Sioux Mills 8 D Sep 28 J J Wilson asks for a change of venue. Convicted of rape, he was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years and later released on bail by the supreme court pending a new trial. He is granted a new trial to occur soon with attorneys Sen C S Gifford of Canton and Judge Palmer of this city assisting.
Whaleback steamship Colby Lampleo detained at Apolochicola quarantine due to yellow jack outbreak aboard. Ship had endured West Indian hurricane, eight days at sea, and two vessels wrecked near her while anchored. Duluth report also notes political result on land suitability along Cleveland road.
Inquiries at the Chinese legation in London find no news of peace talks between China and Japan and doubt that Seoul would host any such negotiations. Elsewhere, Judge Rogerton in Sioux Falls dismisses a county case, Griggs Cooper Co. vs Minnehaha, ruling the state law may be invalid if it intended to include such plaintiffs.
Chauncey Wheaton, a wealthy farmer from Athens, Pa, October 23, was buncoed out of 5000 dollars by two sharpers who posed as buyers for his farm and lured him into a card game that led to his loss. The swindlers made off with the money.
Judge Ney who is alleged to have fortified the position by removing from the district has resigned and Republican lawyers of Buchanan and Delaware counties have petitioned Gov Jackson to appoint A Blaly of Manchester.
Thomas Reed attended a Hamilton club banquet at the Auditorium hotel, with prominent Chicago Republicans present. Aviluy Dixon introduced the speaker who praised Alexander Hamilton as the father of the American system of protection and credited Republican prosperity to his principles. The talk linked national troubles to abandoning Hamiltonian economic rules.
Washington October 28 Secretary Smith and Attorney General Hall debated an Interior case to review the decision on a small Lake Superior Iron country tract near Duluth Minnesota valued by some at a million dollars. The Sioux half breed scrip location and Warren Hartman claims are central as rivals contest the land over six years.
London October 23 reports scarce facts about the ear condition. Crowds, officials, dignitaries and clergy surround the Russian embassy while rumors spread of crisis. Moscow whispers claim the czarit s marriage pressure may force a throne ascension through a swift union with Princess Alix.
In Kansas City on October 28 Populists in Wyandotte County Kansas sought an injunction to stop fusion with Democrats. Attorney J A South filed in common pleas court alleging the county ticket was nominated under the assumption of no fusion and that a fusion movement would defraud the people who nominated the ticket.
In a Michigan village a hunter shot Anton Peterson while deer hunting near Sturgeon Lake. The coroner's jury found criminal carelessness after Hunter, married with a large family, discharged a revolver at what he believed was a deer. Peterson, age about nineteen, died. No arrests yet.
Rev. Mr Lovk wood spoke at the Evangelical Alliance in Cincinnati on Pryklurst needs for civic reform. He addressed district pleas and housing concerns, urging action amid district agitation and wider public interest.
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